Lord Aesir wrote...
TJPags wrote...
He wants Mredith to be over-reaching. He needs her to be over-reacting. He needs her action to be one of sheer hatred and insanity, not a legal and logical reaction to the situation.
To be fair, Meredith was insane and overreacting when she called the Right of Annulment. However, thats a judgement call by us, it was perfectly legal because her superiors just got exploded.
And that's my point, really, although I'll quibble with your choice of language.
It's a judgment call about whether it's the right thing to do, yes. Meredith was insane, yes. It's not in any way illegal, nor is it clearly the wrong thing, and thus I don't see where she was overreacting. Her opinion that people will want blood is quite a logical one, actually. Now that may not be a good reason to do what she did - on it's own, I agree it's not - but the idea that the populace, raised to believe what the Chantry preaches, and finding out that a mage, who had ties to the mage underground, is an apostate who has run away from the Circle 7 times, run away from the Grey Wardens as well, and is actually an abomination, and who has ties to mages in the Circle, will NOT want mage blood in retribution is the illogical one, IMO.
Me personally, I was sick of mages by the time I got to that point in the game. I thought the number of crazy mages I ran into was absurd, thought Anders and his underground were out of control, thought the mages in the Circle were out of control, especially after seeing how Grace had conned Thrask into kidnapping Bethany to lure me in.
However, my sense of justice kicked in a bit after Anders did his deed, and yes, after thinking for a few minutes, I thought "the mages may be out of control, but they didn't do this. It's wrong to kill them for it, without punishing Anders". So I sided with the mages.
I've since decided - after running through the Gallows, fighting more mages and demons then Templars - that I was wrong. The Circle needed to be wiped out, and if this was the only way I was going to be allowed to make that happen, I'll jump on it.
I have no problem with anyone who decides the way I actually did. My only problem is, and will always be, with people who want to argue it was clearly wrong, it was unsupportable, it was illegal, or it was simply a product of Meredith's mindless hate. Especially when they distort the truth to support their arguments.